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You Can't Be What You Can't See: Welcome to the 2016 Fall Arts Guide

Welcome to the 2016 Fall Arts Guide.

Something Artsy to Do Every Day From Today to Thanksgiving

A calendar of performance, book readings, gallery shows and concerts covering every day from now until Thanksgiving.

A Latina Construction Worker Takes Her Advocacy to the Big Screen

“There aren’t really any tradeswomen films, unless you count Flashdance,” says Portland filmmaker Jones Redstone. So she made one.

These Six Female Curators Might Save Portland's Art Scene

As our city reacts to the turmoil of change and we wait to see how it affects our creative class, these six women are the ones to watch.

Portland's Newest Gallery Is Only Representing Female Artists

Co-curators Zemie Barr and Shannon O’Connor started a gallery that only represents female artists.

This Portland Photographer Captures the New Wave of Women Motorcyclists

If you can’t be what you can’t see, Portland photographer Lanakila MacNaughton is doing her best to show you.

Portland's Top Dance Importer Is Bringing Diversity to the Forefront with "BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play"

At performances in other cities, the audience response has been vocal: “A black woman stood up and said, ‘This piece affirms that it’s good to be me!’”

A Genre-Bending Piano-Duo Is Getting Portland the Classical Latin It's Been Missing

Portland fine arts, they noticed, has a shocking gap where non-Western classical compositions should be.

Holland Andrews Has Graduated from GarageBand to a Major Art Residency With Her Operatic Vocal Loops

The Portland classical artist, who performs under the name Like a Villain, is known for her unrehearsed, long-form noise sets, which mix jazzy and operatic vocals with experimental woodwind compositions.

This All-Female Frankenstein Cabaret Ties in the Year's Most Controversial Rape Case

The avant-garde burlesque variety show turns Mary Gothic novel on its monster-green head, exploring women’s suppressed desires, sexual liberation and rape culture.

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